The Nāṣirī Generations 244.6.1

244.6.1

After Kutlugh Khan proceeded towards Awadh, a considerable period elapsed, [when] the eventualities of destiny became the cause of disaffection displaying itself, and, on several occasions, mandates, which were issued on that subject, were treated with indifference. ’Imad-ud-Din-i-Rayhan still continued to use great efforts to enkindle the fires of sedition in order that, perhaps, he might, by fraud and deception, with the mud-mortar of his own vicious artifice, overspread the sun of Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam's good fortune, and veil the moon of that great chief's glory with the cloak of his own knavery, but the favour of the Eternal without beginning, and the all-sufficiency of the Eternal without end, used to be the averter of that depravity. Malik Taj-ud-Din, Sanjar-i-Mah-Peshani [of the moon-like brow] — God preserve him! — who had been detained and imprisoned by Malik Kutlugh Khan, and to whom the government of Bhara’ij had been entrusted by the Court, and on which account he had fallen into captivity, by his own manly stratagem, freed himself from Awadh and the hands of wicked wretches, crossed the river Sar’u in a boat, and, with a small force, advanced towards Bhara’ij. The decree of the Creator was on such wise that the prosperity of the Turks rose victorious, and the influence of the Hindus sank into the dust of defeat. ‘Imad-ud-Din-i-Rayhan fled discomfited before him, and was taken prisoner, and the sun of his existence set in death.